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however, satisfactory for me to know that, at a meeting I had at 

 Linlithgow yesterday, with a number of the county proprietors, 

 and to whom the correspondence was read, and to one or more of 

 whom the history of these hounds is better known than to most 

 other people, they were unanimously of opinion that these hounds 

 are not private property. 



Acting upon their advice and suggestion, I intend to bring the 

 matter before county proprietors and subscribers, and give them 

 an opportunity of expressing their opinions upon it. This I hope 

 to do a little later in the season ; but, in the meantime, I shall 

 put them in possession of a copy of the letters that have passed 

 between us. 



I remain, 



Yours most truly, 



(Sgd.) A. GILLON. 



Barnton, 4^A May 1857. 

 DEAR MR GILLON, 



I have received from Captain Sandilands your letter 

 to him of 1st May : and in acknowledging it, I shall only notice 

 the assertion it contains, that I am resting my claim on the con- 

 sideration shown me by the county gentlemen and subscribers 

 at the meeting of May 1850, — an act of which I could not for a 

 moment be guilty, and a charge from which I feel it necessary 

 now to exonerate myself. 



Truly yours, 



(Sgd.) MARY EAMSAY. 



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